Roleset nest.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "like a bird":

Roles:

Arg0:bird-like entity


Arg1:location of nest

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


nicely inverted syntax (-)
Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested [*T*-2] farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.
REL:	nested
Arg1:	[*T*-2] -> behind which -> clam shells and mud flats
Arg0:	farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets

person: ns tense: past aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


literal bird (-)
A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who [*T*-1] had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> who -> the nightingale
REL:	nested
Arg1-in:	in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden

person: third tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle
This raises the possibility of a super agent: John nested the bird in Mary's lingerie drawer. Either the existing args could be demoted (0->1, 1->2) or an argA could be added.

pseudopassive/adjectival (-)
Next, the hen was nested [*-1] and all seemed well.
Argm-TMP:	Next
REL:	nested
Arg:	[*-1] -> the hen